Team
Solo Mid vs.
Samsung White Game #2
Standard
Lanes
Bans
Zilean Orianna
Rumble Alistar
Thresh Lee
Sin
Picks
1.
Maokai 2. Janna
3.
Jarvan 2. Khazix
3.
Nami 4. Fizz
5.
Corki 4. Twitch
5.
Zed 6. Singed
Lane
Match-ups – Team Solo Mid
Top -
Maokai
cannot really do anything to stop Singed in this lane. Singed is
just too tanky for Maokai to threaten and is able to wave clear fast
while ignoring him. Maokai is going to have to look to do the same,
go heavy into pushing the lane and be prepared to take creep damage.
Good regen for both mana and hp will be important. Would love to see
Maokai pick up a flask for the start, or on an early back, and to
level up his Q first. Otherwise normal build will be fine if TSM
expect Singed to run around the map.
Mid -
Mid
will be a very brawl centric lane. With two mid lane melee assassins
in the mix, poke, trades, and fights will be almost constant. The
rush to level 2 will be very important. If one or the other can
definitively reach level 2 first they can all in to grab early lane
advantage. Zed will have an easier time harassing with his skillshot
Q and his AoE E. Neither of these will pull creep aggro while Fizz
will have to auto early on for his harassment. Zed should be
stronger at level 2, slightly, and then Fizz at level 3, evening back
out after until level 6 upon which Zed should have the advantage.
Zed has several ways of dodging Fizz ultimate, be it his own ultimate
or shadow play. Fizz on the other hand, can only dodge Zed ult
through his pole hop. After 6 if at anytime Fizz's pole hop is down,
Zed should go all in.
Bot -
Corki/Nami
are much much stronger than Twitch/Janna, both Corki and Nami being
stronger in poke, trades, all-ins and disengages than both of their
counterparts. They need to bully the lane and should from the very
start. This lane should also continually stay in TSM's favor
throughout the entire laning phase.
Jungle
-
Comparable
farming speed with Khazix, with stronger early ganks. Would love to
see Jarvan try to make some plays on Bot lane early, maybe even a
dive. Otherwise try to catch Fizz in a bad play. If nothing shows
itself available, farm up and get tanky early to live through
Singed's poison and then tank up Twitch.
Lane
Match-ups – Samsung White
Top -
Singed
can pretty much ignore Maokai in this match-up, which means the lane
is really whatever he wants to make it. Singed can clear the wave,
pushing it against Maokai and then run off, or Singed can even proxy,
putting more pressure onto TSM's top lane. The power of Singed,
especially against an opponent who cannot control or harass him, is
his ability to quickly wave clear and then disappear and I expect to
see SSW utilize this.
Mid -
Mid
will be a very brawl centric lane. With two mid lane melee assassins
in the mix, poke, trades, and fights will be almost constant. The
rush to level 2 will be very important. If one or the other can
definitively reach level 2 first they can all in to grab early lane
advantage. In an even level 2 however, Fizz will be at a
disadvantage, as his skills will force the all-in where as zed can
provide poke as well as all-in potential. At level 3 though, Fizz
will be able to harass with his full kit. Either by dashing in at
Zed and hopping out, or by hopping in behind Zed, then dashing
through him back to Fizz's side of the lane. Once level 6 comes
around, the lane becomes much tougher. Fizz must hold onto his
ultimate and his pole hop, otherwise Zed will have the advantage with
his ultimate up.
Bot -
A much
weaker lane than TSM's duo. There is not a lot to say, just farm
safely, don't make aggressive plays, and wait out the laning phase.
You will come behind, however Twitch can still make his pick plays
with his team once the lane ends. Just don't lose the lane, and get
your CS. Possible to run a 2v1 lane, however Singed will have a much
rougher time and is a pick to fight against Maokai.
Jungle
-
Khazix
has almost all of the advantage in this match-up, mostly due to the
lanes. Fizz and Singed should be extremely safe against their
match-ups, while the bottom lane almost has to be ignored. Khazix
can just look to farm and counter-jungle with Singed and Fizz
watching his back during them.
Team
Composition/Strategy – Team Solo Mid
*Win
Condition – Get small skirmishes during the mid-game, and turn them
into a lead and snowball that lead into a win.
TSM's
team has their strongest point in the bottom lane and they really
need to utilize it. Maokai/Jarvan/Zed can all go even against their
match-ups and have similar or slightly greater strength in the
mid-game. They should focus on going even with SSW and then moving
into the mid-game around levels 7-9, and/or first items.
Mid/Top/Jungle going even, will allow Corki and Nami to use their
very strong lead in bot lane to control neutral objectives. In the
mid-game TSM have the poke advantage with Corki and his power-spike.
Maokai/Jarvan/Nami can play a heavy disengage focus at this time,
letting Corki do his job as they protect him from Fizz, and letting
Zed deal with Twitch when he shows up. TSM will need to get to this
point, and grow from it, as late in the game it will be hard for
TSM's team to deal with Fizz and Singed.
Team
Composition/Strategy – Samsung White
*Win
Condition – Be the better players and brawl brawl brawl.
I don't
really like SSW's team composition, they don't really have much going
in terms of working together, other than all of their champions, and
just their team style, want to be in the fight and brawl. Singed can
run into TSM and disrupt them while the rest of SSW pick apart the
split up TSM. Singed will have to play a big part in just, being a
distraction and disruption in TSM's line, attempting to protect
Twitch by distraction and letting Fizz and Khazix dance around the
fights. As the game gets later, SSW will out-scale TSM in every lane
except top (but Twitch will do better against Maokai than Corki will
against Singed), so they do have this fall-back option if things go
wrong. The most dangerous spot for SSW will be Corki's power-spike
with Trinity Force, and if TSM are able to group and play with this
spike correctly. Singed can split-push during this if necessary, to
pull TSM apart.
Game
Notes -
Attempted
invade onto SSW blue ends with TSM backing off. SSW delay around it,
while getting their lanes in position. Get jungle speed and TP
advantage. SSW turn this into a quicker jungle route, stealing TSM's
blue buff. With the TP advantage SSW are able to trap and collapse
onto TSM as they once again try to invade SSW's blue. SSW come out
with a 3 buff lead and 2 kills, including First Blood.
TSM
dominate bottom lane, but mid and jungle are getting heavily
outplayed.
Dyrus
TP's late to a fight at the mid turret. And SSW execute an amazing
dive, killing TSM's mid and jungle. Khazix gets into the jungle from
a great leap and sneaky play.
TSM get
out of synch in mid, Jarvan goes deep onto Fizz, but Zed has already
backed off.
A
turret dive from SSW ends up going 3 for 2, TSM play well getting the
kills.
Dyrus
gets caught in top lane. But draws SSW down into the river, and TSM
at least trade getting 1 kill and giving up 2 deaths.
SSW
have such a lead, that the game is really already over. TSM do not
have a way to come back into this game. Running with a generic
composition into a generic composition means that TSM getting behind
means they will stay behind.
SSW
look for picks, take objectives, and take vision control of the map.
Stand play when so far ahead, turning into turret dives and pressure
when they get a kill.
SSW
turn their lead into tower diving to move into and take TSM's base.
TSM do
engage a fight, while down 15k gold and do go 3 for 4. A really good
fight from TSM.
SSW
take a long time to close this game. It should have been over 5
minutes earlier than it is. This gives TSM time to recoup their
mentality and make some fun plays. If TSM come back to win the
series, this is the moment that SSW loses it.
End
Game Notes -
Good
play early by SSW earn them a triple buff start again and get 2
kills. They fake the Blue Buff defense, pull out a TP advantage, get
a quicker jungle route and take TSM's Blue, then set a trap for TSM
at their own blue.
From
here TSM is really behind and just get outplayed. Khazix really
takes control of Jarvan, and mid/jungle get destroyed.
TP
usage by SSW is 10x better in this match than TSM's was and really
was a key factor in winning the early game and continuing to snowball
a lead.
*Note –
SSW should force Bjersen onto a brawl/assasin champion again. Ban
Xerath/Syndra/Orianna and then pick away either Lee Sin or Ahri.
This will throw a wrench into what TSM will most likely to to fall
back to next match.
What
Team Solo Mid should have done -
Committed
to the level one invade. They did a great job getting there and
starting it and already had 5 men there. They needed to take the
blue buff, even if it had to be heavily forced and dictate something
to SSW. TSM have still not dictated a single thing against SSW in
both matches.
Drop
the Zed pick, it really isn't working for TSM and they should try to
bring out one of their one-dimensional, extremely strong focused
compositions. SSW have already shown that they can and most likely
will dominate TSM when TSM tries to play SSW's game.
If Zed
had been Syndra or Ahri, TSM could have had an even strong mid-game
team that could poke and punish Fizz/Twitch when they try to engage.
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